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Surah Ya-Sin — 36:77

أَوَلَمْ يَرَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَـٰهُ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ فَإِذَا هُوَ خَصِيمٌ مُّبِينٌ

Awalam yaral insaanu annaa khalaqnaahu min nutfatin fa-izaa huwa khaseemum mubeen

کیا انسان نے نہیں دیکھا کہ ہم نے اس کو نطفے سے پیدا کیا۔ پھر وہ تڑاق پڑاق جھگڑنے لگا

Does the human being not see that we created him from a drop of fluid? Yet there he is, an open adversary.

Reflection

Khasim is a courtroom word, the opposing party in a dispute, and mubin carries both senses of bayan: obvious, and articulate. So the drop of fluid has become an eloquent litigant, and the verse immediately after shows him doing exactly that. Fa-idha compresses an entire human life into the gap between the two clauses.

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